DOE and EPA Honor Energy Star Partners

April 9, 2008

DOE and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) honored 76
businesses, groups, and government entities on April 1 for achieving
major energy savings or helping customers save money and energy
through their work with the Energy Star program. Eight of the
businesses were given special awards to highlight
their work: Gorell Enterprises, Inc., Osram Sylvania, and Whirlpool
Corp. were awarded Sustained Excellence Awards; Pella Corp. and ProVia
Door, Inc. received Partner of the Year awards; Bosch Home Appliances
was lauded for its Excellence in Energy Star Promotion; and Best Buy
received an award for Excellence in Appliance Retailing. Over the past
year, Energy Star, a joint program of DOE and EPA, has helped
consumers save more than $16 billion on their electric bills and
displace the greenhouse gas equivalent of 27 million vehicles. For more information about the
awards, see the DOE press release, the EPA press
release, and a 72-page profile of the award winners (PDF 5.3 MB). Download Adobe Reader.

The EPA is also asking organizations to join the new "Energy Star Low
Carbon IT Campaign." That's "IT" as in "information technology," and
to join the campaign, organizations simply take an online pledge to
activate power management features on their monitors and computers to
save energy and reduce their carbon footprint. Organizations can
increase energy savings further by purchasing Energy Star-qualified
computers and monitors. In turn, EPA provides free assistance to help
implement power management, helps estimate the organization's energy
and carbon savings, and offers official recognition for the
organization. The Energy Star program is also teaming up with the
Climate Savers Computing Initiative, in which companies commit to both
enabling power management and procuring energy-efficient computers.
The initiative was launched last year, and thousands of individuals
have since pledged their support. See the EPA press
release, the campaign Web page on the Energy Star Web site, and the Climate Savers Computing Initiative
press release.